Little Sprouts Garden Box

Little Sprouts Garden Box 🌱 We inspire kids to grow, play, and connect with nature through award winning seasonal activity boxes filled with organic seeds and nature based activities.

Everythjng parents and guardians need to get started in exploring the magic of nature together

20/05/2026

🐝 Happy World Bee Day!
There are over 100 species of bee in Ireland. They pollinate one third of everything we eat. And on windowsills, balconies and gardens all over the country right now, they are doing their quiet, extraordinary work.

We couldn’t think of a better day to open the June countdown. 🌸

Something is coming on 1st June that the bees would absolutely approve of.

That’s all we’re saying for now. 🐝

In the meantime, visit the Little Explorers Jornal to get your free five minute activity for your little one today.

Because World Bee Day deserves to be celebrated properly!

Five Minutes with the Bees — link in bio. 🌱

19/05/2026

In Irish folklore, the ladybird was one of the luckiest creatures you could encounter. 🐞

Its Irish name is boin Dé or the little cow of God.

Harming one brought terrible misfortune. If one landed on you, you counted its spots. Seven spots meant perfect luck for seven months. If it flew away from your hand, you watched which direction it went. That was where your luck was coming from.

Children were taught to say:
“Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. Your house is on fire and your children are gone.”

In the natural world, the ladybird’s red colouring is a warning to predators that it tastes bad. It’s own kind of magic.

I love that Irish folklore looked at a tiny red beetle and saw something sacred. Something lucky. Something worth protecting.

That is the tradition I am trying to pass on. One story at a time. 🌿

Full blog post on Irish folklore stories for children in the Little Explorers Journal.

15/05/2026

My grandmother lived beside a fairy mound in County Louth. 🌿

There was a tree on it. We were told in no uncertain terms never to go near it or we would be transported to the fairy realm.

We absolutely believed her.

That is how folklore works. Not in books. In the voice of someone who believed it themselves. In the particular mixture of wonder and caution that only a granny telling a story can produce.

I have carried that feeling ever since. And it is a big part of why I started Little Sprouts.

Irish folklore is full of nature. Not nature as backdrop or scenery, but nature as a living, breathing, story filled world. Every tree had a personality. Every plant had a history. Every season had a name and a set of instructions for how to honour it properly.

Most Irish children today will never hear any of it.

I have just written a blog post introducing some of these stories including the fairy tree, the salmon of knowledge, the rowan’s protective magic, the púca, the ladybird. Each one paired with a simple nature activity to bring it to life.

The Little Explorers Journal in bio. It is worth a read. 🌿

14/05/2026

May is the best month of the year to get children hooked on growing things. 🌱
Not because it is the easiest. Because in May, things actually happen fast enough to hold their attention.
Sunflower shoots in 7 days. Rocket ready to eat in 4 weeks. Runner beans climbing a teepee they built themselves.
I have just published a complete checklist of gardening jobs for May in Ireland — what to sow, what to plant out, what to maintain, and how to get children meaningfully involved in every single one.
Whether you have a full garden, a balcony or just a sunny windowsill — there is something in here for you.

Read the full blog: https://littlesproutsgardenbox.com/blogs/news/gardening-jobs-for-may-ireland

13/05/2026

Thanks Jen for sending this video of your little one opening the May box. 🌿

I have been making these boxes for months, from the sourcing, the packing, the late nights writing folklore stories I hope will land with little ones.

And then a child opens a box and says “wow fairy stuff” and suddenly none of the hard parts matter at all.

Thank you for this. You have no idea. 🧚

Did you know Ireland’s oldest stories were all about the natural world? 🌿Long before books and screens, Irish children l...
13/05/2026

Did you know Ireland’s oldest stories were all about the natural world? 🌿
Long before books and screens, Irish children learned about the land through stories.

The lone hawthorn tree in the middle of a field. Never cut it down.

The ladybird landing on your hand — count its spots. Seven means seven months of luck.

The rowan berry with a tiny five pointed star on its base, carried in pockets as a charm against misfortune.

The salmon swimming upstream, the wisest creature in existence and older than time itself.

These stories are still alive. And they’re still the best way to get children to actually notice the natural world around them.

I’ve just published a new blog post on Irish Folklore for Children: Stories from the Natural World. Seven folklore stories, each one rooted in something you can find outside right now, each one paired with a simple nature activity to bring it to life.

There’s also a personal note in there about my grandmother’s fairy mound in County Louth. And why I’ve never been able to walk past a lone tree on a mound without feeling that particular mixture of wonder and caution that only a story told by a granny can produce. 🌿

Link in bio to have a read. 🌱

12/05/2026

The 3:00pm pick up. Homework. Dinner. Bed. Repeat. 💚

If screens feel like the only thing that buys you five minutes of peace, I get it. I built this for that exact moment.

It is a free guide. Seven nature based activities that take ten minutes each (or longer if you have the time!). No garden needed. Nothing to buy. Just something to reach for when the evening is slipping away from you.

We have all been there. This is a small thing that helps.

Free. Instant download. No faff. Link in bio 🌿

09/05/2026

Stopped on our walk today to film these.
No reason. Just… look at them.

May is doing something quietly magic out there!
🌼

06/05/2026

We used pieces from our May Little Sprouts box (fairy doors, mushrooms, hedgehogs) to build a little fairy village. She planted her dodies in the pot and went to bed.

The next morning the soothers were gone. The lollipops were waiting.

Some magic is real. 🌿✨

04/05/2026

Every Little Sprouts box comes with a booklet. 🌿

But I want to talk about this one specifically.

The May booklet is 32 pages.

Inside there is the full story of Cliodhna, one of the oldest fairy queens in Irish mythology, written for little ones. There are growing guides for every seed in the box. Step by step activity instructions. Recipes. Nature facts about the Irish season. A fairy garden build. A pea teepee guide.

It is not a leaflet. It is not an instruction sheet. It is the kind of thing you sit down together and read.

I spent a long time on this one. I wanted it to feel like something worth keeping, not something you recycle when the box is empty.

If your May box has arrived, I hope you have had a chance to sit with it. 🌿

Tag me in your photos, I want to see every single one!

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